The latest quarterly Labour Market Update was released last Tuesday by Jobs and Skills Australia. In the year to May 2023, it found that 91 per cent of total employment growth was in occupations that require post-school qualifications. It reports ...

Australia’s university sector lacks the institutional resilience to “prepare our nation for the future” and needs to enrol more people from lower socioeconomic and rural backgrounds to secure the future labour force, according to a landmark report. The Australian Universities ...

Three Australian universities ranking in the top 20 academic institutions globally fell flat in a recent student satisfaction survey. The QS World University rankings released in June feature 1,500 institutions across 104 locations. The University of Melbourne ranked 14th place ...

Universities will have until 2025 to roll out major changes in their teaching degrees as part of a major shake-up of teacher education in Australia. Last week, education ministers signed off “in principle” on 14 recommendations from experts tasked to ...

A tax on nearly $10bn a year of foreign student fees is being actively considered by experts drawing up Labor’s once-in-a-generation overhaul of the nation’s universities, sparking a war between the vice-chancellors who gain and lose from the plan. The ...

The University of Adelaide and the University of South Australia have formalised plans to merge into the state’s largest higher education institution by 2026. Last week, the South Australian government announced it would invest $450 million to establish the new ...

University of Wollongong deputy vice-chancellor Professor Leo Farrell has been announced as the new head of Victoria's La Trobe University. Professor Farrell, an internationally recognised war scholar, said he looked forward to realising a "bold and exciting" future for the ...

Cash-strapped universities have been instructed to find new ways to make money to offset tumbling enrolments, as more school leavers choose work over study. Soaring living costs, especially rent, food and electricity, are forcing more Australian students to defer or ...

The University of Melbourne has achieved its highest-ever place in this year’s global higher education rankings, with three Australian universities breaking into the world’s top 20.  The annual QS World University Rankings ranked Melbourne University 14th globally and first in ...

A group of former senior university executives are working to establish Australia’s first “lifestyle university” on the NSW Central Coast. The Chancellor Institute is chaired by former Sydney University deputy vice-chancellor Professor Emerita Ann Brewer and aims to raise $4.5M ...